Re: splashy in default desktop environment(was: The project is dead?)

[Luis <lemsx1@gmail.com>]

On 8/26/06, Michael Banck <mbanck@debian.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 02:38:32PM -0400, Luis wrote:
> > On 8/26/06, Michael Banck <mbanck@debian.org> wrote:
> > >1. Is there are resolution which works well for everybody?
> >
> > That's a big assumption, but, i should say that in a desktop, using
> > anything less than 1024x768 looks very bad, especially under Gnome.
>
> But we are talking about the boot splash, not the desktop here I
> thought.
>
> My point is that a resolution of 800x600 and 16 colors should be good
> enough for a Debian splash screen, if that saves us from having to
> configure vga= in the kernel command line.  (Other people/distributions
> might prefer higher resolutions/colors fo course)

Are you sure? 16 colors for a very basic image, perhaps. Not for a
good image. For that they might as well use usplash. That's what
usplash is for (a minimalist approach to covering the text during
boot). There is even another usplash-minimal project now, which has
even less features. Splashy was meant to be feature rich (yet not
bloated). I like lots of colors during boot.

> > Also keep in mind that this resolution and color selection has nothing
> > to do with what X/Gnome/or whatever would actually use once the system
> > finishes booting. At that point it will go to whatever the users feel
> > comfortable with.
>
> Right, so see above.
>
> > >I don't think that is a big problem, giving how the boot process looked
> > >until now.  It might be nice to address this for etch+1, though.
> >
> > People want bootsplashing solutions since yesterday.
>
> Sure.  I was just talking about that "outputs some non-bootsplashed
> stuff sometimes", which might be annoying, but is no show-stopper IMHO.
>
>
> cheers,
>
> Michael
>
>
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